That's hardly unique to web frameworks, look at all the forks in major Open Source projects lately. Hardly a day goes by without a part of the desktop stack being forked because people can't play nicely together.
Posted Aug 24, 2012 9:55 UTC (Fri) by rwst (guest, #84121)
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People no longer fork only because chemistry between developers is bad, they fork more now because it's much easier with git to fork (and merge again). There is however something in the observation that PHP forks are culminating. I'm personally not touching that language with a long stick.